Oh. My. Word. Check out the medals for this year's #SolsticeSeries! These look AMAZING! //
Get yourself to the finish line and be honoured by having one of these draped round your neck.
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Thank you to the guys at The Workshop, Aberfeldy (a social enterprise with a passion for providing opportunities for young people in Highland Perthshire).
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Enter via our website.
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#rundirty #runnersofinstagram #runnersofinsta #trailrun #trailrunner #trailrunning #trailrace #summersolstice

Tag your bestie below for a chance to win the first two tickets to Summer Solstice 2.0! Follow us, like this post and comment below. Each new comment is an entry. Winner will be drawn April 2 at 9 am when tickets are released to the public!!! This year we’ve opened the event up to men too. They deserve to see first hand what all the fuss is about! #summersolstice #bestie #dayenightyeg #yegdatenight #yeggiveaway ***no cash value, must pick up tickets, cannot be resold, event is June 20 in Sturgeon County, AB***

We're so excited to have @yogangsters host their mini retreat at Capo Cottages in June!⠀
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Yoga classes will be taught by @kellyisaacyoga over the #summersolstice weekend! The retreat will include posture clinics, hikes in the Scottish hills and cleansing vegan menus. We will be joined by the wonderful Althea Massage Therapy & Yoga who will be offering massage throughout the weekend. Spaces are limited so email 📧 enquiries to [email protected]yogangster.co.uk - we can't wait!

Bright blessings you beautiful beings 💚💚💚 Happy Ostara 💚💚💚
In gratitude for developing my own connection to nature and magic deeper, I want to offer you a gift today. My Esbat boxes will be available for €15 and commissioned portraits in the style of my recent posts will be just €25. Any emails or DMs up to midnight will be honoured at this price. Sarahsweetacid[@]gmail[.com]
Have a beautiful day 💚💚💚 Artist of this piece is the amazing Matt Hughes.
#witchesofig #ostara #summersolstice #magic #moon #witches #witch #blessedbe #wicca

2019-03-21 10:37
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🔅 It’s the first day of Spring, the real natural New Year of 2019, Oh and also a Super full moon 🌕 😮What a magical time for fresh starts and for recognising what shifts we may need to make in our lives.
🌗 In astronomy, this is the day of the year where the Sun is exactly between #WinterSolstice & #SummerSolstice, creating a natural balance between night and day.
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⚛️ Interestingly, the astrological calendar (regardless if you believe it or not), begins with Aries (March 21-22) and not Capricorn (January 1).
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❄️ No matter how calm, cosy and beautiful winter can be, in reality, everything is cold, dead and barren.
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🔚 Winter represents an end of a cycle while spring represents the emerging of a new cycle of the seasons (and of life).
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🌷New beginnings can represent so many things in one's life, be it physical changes to metaphorical ones like how we allow ourselves to unlearn certain "truths" we've believed all our lives, hence a reset of perspectives.
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🌸 Just like nature shedding its leaves but trusting that it will bloom again in spring, so must we...
take in new insights, opportunities and trust the process of letting go of what no longer serves us to make room for the new.
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🌀What a great opportunity for a fresh start, for us to review our own lives to try to replicate that natural balance. Look both within and outside of yourself and have a little think about what you might want to let go of or invite into your life, what no longer needs your energy or that which requires more perhaps. 🌝 Sit quietly and allow the energy of the moon and equinox fill you with light and messages to help you become the best you poss. 💛 Sending you love, inner peace and happiness. Enjoy your ‘self’
#SpringEquinox #fullmoon #energyshift
#ostara

💛 If you're reading this, then you are meant to receive the message that today, the first day of Spring, is the real natural New Year of 2019 🔅
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SWIPE---
Now before some of you go ape shit that I sound like a lunatic, trust that I come in peace & calmness...
With that, I suggest you do some thorough research & rethinking...
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✨ When we think of "NEW," we think of life in its infancy, fresh beginnings, blossoming and awakenings of hope and light.
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❄️ No matter how calm and beautiful winter can be, everything is cold, dead and barren.
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🔚 Winter represents an end of a cycle while spring represents the emerging of a new cycle of the seasons (and of life).
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🌗 In astronomy, this is the day of the year where there the Sun is exactly between #WinterSolstice & #SummerSolstice, creating a perfect balance between night and day.
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⚛️ Even the astrological calendar (regardless if you believe it or not), begins with Aries (March 21-22) and not Capricorn (January 1).
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📖 Our calendar month's root names are of Latin descent and those too imply nature's true chronological order of the year.
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🌷New beginnings can represent so many things in one's life, be it physical changes to metaphorical ones like how we allow ourselves to unlearn certain "truths" we've believed all our lives, hence a reset of perspectives.
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🌸 Just like nature shedding its leaves but trusting that it will bloom again in spring, so must we...
to take in new insights, opportunities and trusting the process of letting go what no longer serves us to make way for the new.
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📍 While I am aware that the concept of "new year's day" doesn't mean anything to many as you are supposedly same person you were yesterday,
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But sometimes, we as humans, need a tangible go signal for a fresh start:
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🦋 For that extra push & motivation to start anew... and so it is...
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💛 Sending you love, inner peace and a renewed sense of learning & being...
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#BiancaVTravels #BiancaVTravelsJAPAN | KAWACHI FUJI-EN TUNNEL, Fukuoka
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#SpringEquinox
#RealNewYear #SoulAwakening

| Farm To Table Wellness Festival.
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Could not be more grateful and stoked to announce THE Jason Stoneburner as Executive Chef for June 22-23 Farm To Table Wellness Festival at Monteillet Fromagerie near Dayton, WA.
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Jason is the Executive Chef at Bastille Cafe and Bar and Chef/Owner of Stoneburner restaurant. Jason is also the Chef/Owner of the newly opened Seaplane Kitchen & Bar In Kenmore, Just North of Seattle. .
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He is dedicated to procuring products form small farms and thoughtfully sourcing ingredients for all three of his restaurants. Jason is a proud supporter of the Special Olympics, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Farestart, WarmCurrent, and charities that encourage sustainable farming and agriculture.
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In his free time, Jason can be found somewhere along the West Coast surfing or snowboarding.

🌷Ostara Blessings! Also known as the Spring Equinox, Ostara takes place between March 19 – 21st. This is based on when the Sun crosses the celestial equator and this year Spring arrives March 20th.
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It was also known as: Oestara or Eostre's Day. The Old English word Ēostre continues into modern English as Easter and is derived from Eostre (pronounced yo’ster), the Germanic-Saxon Goddess of Growth and Fertility. Eostre is also one of the origins of spelling the word oestrogen which became estrogen.
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Ancient symbols associated with the Goddess Eostre are the hare, eggs, and baby chicks.
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In fact, in 325CE the Council of Nicaea decreed that Easter would be held on the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after the Vernal Equinox.
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Spring Equinox is when day and night, yin and yang are in equal balance. It welcomes growth, new beginnings, planning, and opening to direction.
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SPRING heralds initiation, creation, and renewal. It is full of sunshine and melting snow. Of rain and blooming flowers. Spring is a time to see the beauty in all things as life bursts forth all around us. It calls forth our innate creativity to awaken and make itself known.
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Check out this week's SUNday Seasonal Sanctuary series in celebration of Spring/Ostara and learn about Earth wisdom through the lens of the Celtic calendar, Ayurveda, and Chinese Medicine, how to work with the energy of the Season, and musings of how I'm working with it personally. All based on decades of practice, research, and respect for Nature’s wisdom.
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🦋Sign up through link in bio. 🦋
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ALSO...consider joining us for one of the Spring Equinox Seasonal Circles this week. Registrations are closing soon. 🔗 in bio.

2019-03-20 19:34
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🚨SAVE THE DATE!🚨 We are so honored to host @saltglass in our hometown of Honolulu this summer! 🌞 The Summer Solstice, aka the peak of summer, is marked this year by a 2-DAY CLASS taught by Salt and hosted by @og_tubes and assisted by @whosyourgaffer_glass 🙏🏽 Followed with a FREE SHOW & Drop of Salt’s newest work presented by @headyhawaii 😎 Food, drinks and giveaways! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉➡️Please hit up @og_tubes to secure your spot in the class.
➡️Dm @headyhawaii to RSVP for the show and get full details. Summer Solstice (June 21) marks the longest day of the year for those of us in the northern hemisphere. We will make great use of the extra long day and spend it learning from a legend, basking in the Hawaiian sun, and exploring what Oahu has to offer. We could think of no better place to spend your 2019 Summer Solstice! We’re happy to give as much travel tips as we can. Feel free to shoot us a DM with any questions. Hope to see you there! ❤️💛💚 #SaltGlass #SummerSolstice #SummerSolsticewithSalt #HeadyHawaii #Ogtubes

Artist book made on the 2018 summer solstice in Stan Shellabarger’s current show at WX — both copies in the edition are on view. #2 of 2 rests in the custom acrylic book holder and #1 of 2 is displayed fully open on the wall.
Untitled (Summer Solstice 2018), 2018
Accordion-fold artist book: cyanotypes on paper, archival tape, Arches covers
7 x 5 in. closed; 7 x 80 in. open
Edition of 2
Beginning in 1994, Shellabarger has executed over a dozen performances on solstices and equinoxes. Marking the longest and shortest days of the year, or those days with equal amounts of light and dark respectively, the duration of his art-making activities are often influenced, or even determined by, these celestial events.
In Shellabarger’s new body of work, comprised of a series of cyanotypes— a camera-less photographic process where chemically coated paper is exposed to light— full moons, the solstices, equinoxes and a solar eclipse are also the work’s light source, in addition to the inspiration for its imagery.
Shellabarger’s practice is often characterized by its relationship to the passage of time, which is infinitely more complex then a linear beginning, middle and end. The cyclical, repetitious arcs and ellipses of orbiting stars and planets are powerful symbols of that, and this body of work not only evokes them, it also harnesses their charged and ever-changing intervals.
#stanshellabarger #artistbook #accordionfold #summersolstice #celestialevents